Interview: Mary Kate Wiles, actress
Mary Jane Wiles discusses The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, filming romance scenes, and web-based storytelling. Continue reading Interview: Mary Kate Wiles, actress
Mary Jane Wiles discusses The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, filming romance scenes, and web-based storytelling. Continue reading Interview: Mary Kate Wiles, actress
From My So-Called Life and Dawson’s Creek to Veronica Mars and Friday Night Lights, our TV team pick their favourite teen dramas. Continue reading Top Ten: High School Dramas
Featuring works in a variety of media, this exhibition shows the breadth of creativity of often under-appreciated Irish female artists. Continue reading Irish Women Artists 1870-1970 – review
The 184th Annual Exhibition of the Royal Hibernian Academy has begun. tn2 reviews the works on display. Continue reading 184th Annual Exhibition // RHA
WORDS Jennifer Duffy Twentieth-century Celtic Revival artist Sister Concepta Lynch was born Lily Lynch in 1874. Growing up, she learned the art of illumination from her father Thomas Joseph Lynch who had a shop on Middle Abbey Street in Dublin … Continue reading The Oratory Art of Sister Concepta Lynch
WORDS Jennifer Duffy The Copper House Gallery, opened in September 2011, houses an exhibition space and a fine art printing press. Their current show is Encore! described as the “greatest hits” of exhibitions held during the past year. It features an exciting mix of … Continue reading Review: Encore // The Copper House Gallery
WORDS Jennifer Duffy Grace Mitchell (1868-1953) was raised in Aberdeen, and exhibited her early work with the Aberdeen Artists Society. Leaving Aberdeen around 1899, she pursued her artistic studies in Brussels in the Ernest Blanc Garic Academy. The Academy … Continue reading Portrait of a Life in Art: Grace Henry
WORDS JENNIFER DUFFY The painter Jack B Yeats and his brother, poet W. B. Yeats are both well known figures of the Irish Revival period, however, their sisters Susan ‘Lily’ Yeats (1866-1949) and Elizabeth ‘Lollie’ Yeats (1868-1940) also made important contributions … Continue reading Women in Art: Susan ‘Lilly’ and Elizabeth ‘Lollie’ Yeats
WORDS: Jennifer Duffy In Irish art, women have often been instrumental in the development of modern styles. The principle instigators in bringing Cubism to Ireland in the 1920s were Evie Hone, Mainie Jellet and Mary Swanzy. While their innovative work was … Continue reading Women in Art: The Cubists
WORDS GABIJA PURLYTĖ AND JENNIFER DUFFY Francis Upritchard’s exhibition in the Douglas Hyde Gallery is fascinating and unsettling, confusing and heart-warming. It is bound to provoke a reaction from the viewer, a different one from each. tn2 offers you two such … Continue reading Review: Francis Upritchard – Douglas Hyde Gallery
WORDS: Jennifer Duffy Letitia Hamilton, painter of landscapes and rural scenes, hailed from an artistic family – her sister Eva was a portrait painter, and the two often exhibited together. Their great-grandmother Catherine Hamilton (née Tighe) was a watercolourist who also … Continue reading Women In Art – Letitia Hamilton
WORDS: Jennifer Duffy This piece is the first in a series exploring the works of Irish female artists. Across the art world, women have typically been left out of the Western canon. Art historian Linda Nochlin speaks of this in her … Continue reading A Series on Women In Art: Sarah Purser